About Marcy

Marcy Dermansky is the author of the novel Bad Marie and Twins.

Bad Marie was a  Barnes and Noble Fall Discover Great New Writers pick. Time Magazine pronounced Bad Marie “irresistible.” “Deliciously wicked,” proclaimed Slate. “Bad-ass,” said Esquire Magazine, naming Bad Marie one of the top novels of 2010.

Marcy’s first novel Twins (2005) was a New York Times Editors Choice Pick: “A brainy, emotionally sophisticated bildungsroman-for-two.”

Publications

In addition to her novels Bad Marie and Twins, Marcy has published many short stories in magazines and anthologies.

“Waiting For Big Bird” is part of Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens, and “Adults at Home,” the title story of Marcy’s graduate thesis, was first published in Indiana Review and then reprinted in Love Stores: A Literary Companion to Tennis and later in the online journal Fifty-Two Stories.